Cover Story
p.36 Product Preview: The HP 150
[author Phil Lemmons and Barbara Robertson]
"Magic" is the code name for Hewlett-Packard's latest personal computer project-and it fits. In this preview, we take a look at the hardware and software that make the machine so special.
p.51 An Interview: The HP 150's Design-team Leaders
[author Phil Lemmons and Barbara Robertson]
Jim Sutton and John Lee talk about the development of the HP 150.
Columns
p.61 Build the Micro D-Cam Solid-State Video Camera, Part 2: Computer Interfaces and Control Software
[author Steve Ciarcia]
In this final article in the series, you'll learn how to attach the camera to the expansion buses of the Apple II Plus and the IBM PC and how the camera is programmed to work.
p.94 BYTE West Coast: Shaping Consumer Software
[author Phil Lemmons and Barbara Robertson]
In an interwiew, Trip Hawkins, president of Electronic Arts, discusses the criteria he uses to judge software and explains his view of the programmer as artist.
p.101 User's Column: New Computers, Boards, Languages, and Other Tidbits
[author Jerry Pournelle]
A medical diagnosis-by-computer program is the star attraction this month.
Themes
p.130 The Unix Operating System
[author Bruce Roberts]
The multiuser, multitasking operating system developed at Bell Laboratories offers powers and abilities far beyond those of normal microcomputer operating systems. Our theme articles explore the reasons behind Unix's popularity
p.132 The Unix Tutorial, Part 3: Unix In the Microcomputer Marketplace
[author David Fiedler]
The final article in th is series explains the differences between various Unix versions and between true Unix systems, work-alikes, and look-alikes.
p.160 Unix and the Standardization of Small Computer Systems
[author Jean L. Yates]
The Unix operating system and the C language will be major factors in the standardization of file handling and compatibility across small systems and mainframes.
p.170 A Tour Through the Unix File System
[author James Joyce]
A devoted Unix user surveys points of interest in Unix's hierarchy of files.
p.181 The Unix Shell
[author Stephen R. Bourne]
The author of the standard Unix shell presents the program that interprets users' commands and is a programming language in its own right.
p.209 Unix as an Application Environment
[author Mark Krieger and Fred Pack]
Unix is the operating system of choice for many programmers because it offers portability, communications capability, a rich set of utilities, and a large body of applications.
p.219 Usenet: A Bulletin Board for Unix Users
[author Sandra L. Emerson]
A look at a network of more than 500 Unix systems and its various and sundry uses.
p.241 The Unix Writer's Workbench Software
[author Lorinda L. Cherry and Nina H. Macdonald]
This applications package can improve your writing by analyzing rough drafts and suggesting improvements.
p.253 Typesetting on the Unix System
[author Bill Tuthill]
With troff. you can typeset manuscripts, tables, and equations with Unix.
p.266 Moving Unix to New Machines
[author Michael Tilson]
Unix is highly portable, but transporting a large body of software can present problems.
Reviews
p.280 The NEC Advanced Personal Computer
[author David B. Suits]
The author met the microcomputer of his dreams in the form of high-resolution graphics, color, and 16-bit performance.
p.292 Radio Shack's TRS-80 Model 4
[author Rowland Archer Jr.]
Offering a host of new features and a new, improved price tag, the Model 4 is proof that large corporations can be responsive to the needs of their customers.
p.306 The Morrow Micro Decision
[author Tom Wadlow]
A review of the company's first effort at a single-board, stand-alone personal computer.
p.316 The Microneye
[author Chris Wieland]
Until now, the cost of adding vision to a computer has been out of reach for most users. Now there's the Microneye solid-state camera, which interfaces easily with a variety of popular microcomputers.
p.324 The M68000 Educational Computer Board
[author Robert W. Floyd]
For $495, you can get acquainted with a 68000-based single-board computer with 32K bytes of RAM and what the author says may be the best monitor program in RAM ever developed.
p.341 Fancy Font
[author Paul E. Hoffman]
With this easy-to-use program and an Epson printer, you can design your own type styles.
p.428 More Unix-style Software Tools for CP/M
[author Christopher O. Kern]
The Microtools package includes the most popular utilities available for the Unix operating system.
Features
p.350 Photographic Animation of Microcomputer Graphics
[author Peter Cann]
By interfacing a movie camera to a computer, you can achieve the animation quality of commercial movies or television.
p.366 The Fourth National Computer Graphics Association Conference
[author Alexander Pournelle]
This year's NCGA conference offered improved graphics hardware, but graphics software still leaves a lot to be desired.
p.384 Echonet, Part 2: The Compiler
[author C. Bradford Barber]
In the conclusion of this series, the author explains how his system produces relocatable code from English-like programs.
p.398 Computer Crime: A Growing Threat
[author Collen Gillard and Jim Smith]
The machine that provides businesses with a competitive edge is also placing them at the mercy of a new type of lawbreaker the computer criminal. Fortunately there are ways to prevent unauthorized computer access.
p.439 Mainframe Graphics on a Microcomputer
[author Mahlon Kelly]
If you have a smart terminal program and a microcomputer capable of high-resolution graphics, you can display complex graphics.
p.447 Talker
[author Heyward S. Williams]
Writing a talking program is simple, says the author, if you can use PRINT and INPUT statements to automatically transfer information to a speech synthesizer.
p.480 Bitmaps Speed Data-handling Tasks
[author Eric Sohr]
Strings of ones and zeros can make short work of ordered-list comparisons and file searches.
p.499 Simplified Program Interfacing
[author Raymond Irvine]
A programming technique based on jump and data tables simplifies the interface between two programs when at least one of them has fixed entry points and data addresses.
Nucleus
p.4 Editorial: A Challenge to Education
p.7 MICROBYTES
p.12 Letters
p.540 User to User
p.548 Ask BYTE
p.556 Software Received and BOMB Results
p.566 Clubs and Newsletters
p.570 Books Received
p.574 Event Queue
p.586 What's New?
p.669 Unclassified
p.669 BYTE's Ongoing Monitor Box
p.672 Reader's Service

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